On 2016-05-23 12:20:53, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 23.05.2016, 10:50 +0200 schrieb Iustin Pop: > > > A: We track Stackge Nightly and GHC-8 only in our git repository, > > > > Not even in experimental? I fear this is a too conservative plan, > > hiding problems for a longer time (as you say below). > > Experimental is an option, yes. As long as we make sure we don’t > accidentally upload to unstable (happened regularly in the past). Maybe > we can ask d-release to block uploads to unstable (they can do that). This sounds like a good option then. I think whatever we choose, we need to have the new packages uploaded somewhere (PPA, experimental, unstable, etc.) in order to be able to test them. > > > B: We track Stackage Nightly and GHC-8 in unstable. This way, we know > > > about arch-specific problems earlier, but unstable is broken (for a > > > long time, I fear) and we cannot upload fixes meant for testing. > > What kind of fixes-for-testing are you thinking about? > > Security issues, RC bugs related to embedded JS code, serious problems > with the libraries that can be fixed with a minor version bump. Ack. If only testing-proposed-updates would be commonly-used… thanks, iustin
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